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Re: Western Digital HD problems?

Alan Hodgson
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:57:39 -0700

On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 11:18:41PM -0700, Vlad Petersen wrote:
> > The Seagate was a 1.08 GB SCSI, and it died last year.

Seagate Hawks were nasty pieces of work. We had a 50% failure rate
over 6 months on those (5 out of 10 dead).

I've also had a 250MB Quantum SCSI drive die, a 1 GB Seagate SCSI 5.25",
a 3GB Seagate 3.5" die after a few years, and 2 Quantum 6.5 GB UIDE drives
die within weeks of being purchased. I have a 1.6 GB WD IDE drive
that's lasted a little over 2 years but is slowly dying.

Of course, I've also had Quantum and Seagate drives last for 4-5
years or more. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason
to it, it's all luck of the draw (although I'll be damned if
I buy another Quantum for a long while ;).

- Alan